Farmer Threat - The Political Economy of Agrarian Reform in Postsoviet Russia

This volume examines the agrarian crisis, primarily in Russia but also in other states of former USSR, from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, surveying the context of agrarian reforms in recent years and examining the specifics of individual farming development in post-Soviet Russia.

List of contents

Introduction -- The Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Supplies -- Russian Agriculture Between Plan and Market -- The Food Problem in the Republics of the Former USSR -- The Farms’ Revolt and Grain Shortages in 1991 -- Russian Food Supplies in 1992 -- The Post-Soviet Agrarian Reforms -- The Return of Individual Farming in Russia -- Stolypin Is Risen! The Ideology of Agrarian Reform in Contemporary Russia -- Political Institutions and Agrarian Reform in Russia -- A Fieldwork-Based Appraisal of Individual Peasant Farming in Russia -- The Agrarian Reforms and Russia’s Future -- Agrarian Interests and the Politics of Reform in Post-Soviet Russia

About the author

Don Van Atta is a Research Associate at the Center on East-West Trade, Investment and Communications, Duke University. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Soviet Economy and Problems of Communism.

Product details

• Authors: Werner Hahn, Bill Liefert, David A J Macey, David a J Liefert Macey, Don Van Atta, Donald Van Atta, Donald Macey Van Atta
• Assisted by: Don Van Atta (Editor), Donald Van Atta (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780367307554
• ISBN: 978-0-367-30755-4
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food